Milk ***½ Gus Van Sant directed Sean Penn to a Best Actor Oscar in this biopic of crusading politician Harvey Milk, who in the late 1970s became the first openly gay man to hold public office in this country. Dustin Lance Black's Oscar-winning screenplay follows its hero from middle-age awakening to his early death at the hands of a fellow San Francisco official. The cast includes Emile Hirsch. ...more

March 13, 2009

In the words of that great 20th century poet Sir Mix-A-Lot: "Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake that healthy butt. Baby got back." ...more

March 12, 2009

Joseph Burrucker, 82, was an air traffic controller with the Tuskegee Airmen in the 1940s. For the past few weeks, he has been working out at a gym near his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, trying to get in shape so that at Barack Obama's inauguration, he will be able to walk, albeit with a cane, to his seat. ...more

January 19, 2009

Multi-Grammy nominated performer Jennifer Hudson will sing the National Anthem as part of the Super Bowl XLIII pregame festivities at Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 1, the NFL and NBC announced today. ...more

January 14, 2009

Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back. ...more

December 8, 2008

Darnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters. Or Etta James. Or Chuck Berry. ...more

December 4, 2008

WALL-E ***½ Pixar continues to broaden the aesthetic horizons of tots everywhere with this nostalgic kids' movie about a robot compacting trash on a deserted Earth. Other than the odd cockroach and a copy of "Hello, Dolly!," Wall-E has been alone for hundreds of years, sorting through the rubble of a consumer culture apocalypse, until the arrival of a lady robot. ...more

November 21, 2008

New DVD releases this week ...more

November 18, 2008

When Aretha Franklin is unhappy, she does not mince words. ...more

February 14, 2008

Jon Stewart will return as host of the Academy Awards. ...more

September 13, 2007